Colorado Quitline: 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)

The Colorado QuitLine has a special program to help pregnant women quit smoking during pregnancy and stay smoke-free after the baby is born. Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) to learn how to quit tobacco today! Be sure to tell them you are pregnant so you can participate in the special program.

This FREE program provides:

• As many as nine FREE personal coaching calls available from the start of the pregnancy through the postpartum period

• The same, specially trained coach throughout your quit process

• Text messaging for support during your quit process

• Rewards that can be used to purchase items for yourself and/or your baby
            - $5 per completed call during pregnancy (up to $25)
            - $10 per completed call after your baby is born (up to $40)

The Colorado QuitLine is a FREE telephone-based coaching program available to Colorado residents 15 years of age and older who are ready to quit smoking. Clients who call the QuitLine will be asked a few basic questions to enroll in the program.

Free nicotine replacement therapy (patches or lozenges) is available to smokers 18 years of age and over and medically eligible. A prescription for nicotine replacement therapy is required for smokers who are pregnant.

Tobacco Cessation Campaign Materials
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment launched a tobacco cessation campaign in the Fall of 2010 to motivate Medicaid recipients and pregnant women who smoke to call the Colorado QuitLine (1-800-QUIT-NOW). As a part of the campaign, FREE materials were designed to help inform clients and providers about the Colorado QuitLine services, including the new QuitLine program specially designed for pregnant women, as well as the expanded tobacco cessation medication benefit through Medicaid. If you are interested in ordering these FREE materials, please go to www.cohealthresources.org and select “QuitLine” under the Campaign dropdown menu. For step-by-step instructions on how to place an order for these materials click HERE.

For information about the campaign, click HERE.

For a copy of the QuitLine Fax Referral Sheet click HERE for English or HERE for Spanish.

Smoking Cessation Decision Tree & Online Resource Lists
The Prenatal Smoking Cessation Project Team at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment developed two online resource lists, one for professionals and one for clients. The team also developed a smoking cessation decision tree for providers. The decision tree is a simplified version of the Colorado Clinical guidelines Collaborative (CCGC) tobacco cessation guideline. The simplified decision tree was created for front line staff and can be used in situations where client counseling time is limited.

• Tobacco Cessation Decision Tree

• Resources For Women and Families

• Resources for Professionals

Prenatal Smoking Cessation Websites for Professionals

• National Partnership for Smoke-Free Families

• HealthTeamWorks Clinical Guidelines for Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke Exposure

• Tobacco Use and Pregnancy - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Colorado Data on Tobacco Use During Pregnancy

• Health Watch 75 - Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy: Colorado Trends, May 2010

Tobacco Cessation Trainings

• "Tools to Help Pregnant Women Quit Smoking" (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment) - Archived webinar originally aired 10/19/11  >> Presentation Handout   >> Speaker's Notes

• "Help Your Pregnant Patients Stop Smoking" - Web-based CME Course (Marshall University)

• “Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond” (Dartmouth Medical School)

• “Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy” (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology)

• HealthTeamWorks Professional Development Opportunities
  HealthTeamWorks has a number of free professional development opportunities in the form of webcasts for Colorado physicians and clinical office staff. To view past webcasts on tobacco cessation, including “Working with Pregnant Women Who Smoke: Tools You Can Use to Help Them Quit”, click here.